- Review AWS’s current certification page, retirement notice, final exam date, certification validity window, and exam registration considerations.
- Understand the advanced networking specialist role and how AWS validates the ability to design, implement, manage, and secure AWS and hybrid network architectures at scale.
- Map the course to the four official scored domains and the supporting exam guide tasks.
- Build a study strategy for experienced candidates who need rapid, structured readiness before the exam retires.
AWS Specialty Certification Training Course
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Certification Training Course
Prepare for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty exam with Accumentum’s advanced cloud networking course. Build the skills to design, implement, manage, troubleshoot, automate, and secure AWS and hybrid network architectures at scale.
Important certification update: AWS states that this exam is being retired, with the last day to take the exam on August 25, 2026. Certifications earned before retirement remain active for the standard three-year period.
Course Overview
Design, implement, manage, and secure AWS and hybrid networks at enterprise scale.
Accumentum’s AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Certification Training Course prepares experienced networking and cloud professionals for the ANS-C01 exam and the advanced AWS networking skills it validates. The course is built around AWS’s current certification page and exam guide, including the retirement timeline, candidate expectations, exam logistics, and official content domains.
This specialty course focuses on complex networking tasks across AWS and hybrid environments: global traffic management, edge networking, Route 53, DNS architecture, load balancing, VPC design, AWS Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, multi-account connectivity, routing strategy, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, network security, compliance, governance, and encryption in transit.
The course is appropriate for professionals who need advanced capability in cloud and hybrid networking. AWS describes the target candidate as someone with five or more years of networking experience and two or more years of cloud and hybrid networking experience. Accumentum’s training translates those expectations into a structured readiness path for certification candidates, senior network engineers, cloud network architects, infrastructure leads, and technical consultants.
Because AWS has announced the retirement of this exam, the course positions learners to make an informed decision: pursue the certification before the final exam date, validate existing advanced networking expertise, or use the curriculum as a focused AWS networking upskilling path even after the exam retires.
Course Objectives
Build advanced AWS networking capability and ANS-C01 exam confidence.
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Network Design
Design edge, DNS, load balancing, logging, monitoring, routing, hybrid connectivity, multi-account, multi-region, and VPC network architectures.
02
Network Implementation
Implement routing, Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, multi-VPC connectivity, hybrid DNS, and repeatable infrastructure automation.
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Management and Operations
Maintain routing, monitor and analyze traffic, troubleshoot connectivity, optimize throughput, improve reliability, and manage cost-effective network operations.
04
Security and Governance
Secure inbound, outbound, and inter-VPC traffic while implementing logging, audit, compliance, encryption, secure DNS, and centralized network governance.
Who Should Attend
- Experienced network engineers preparing for the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certification before the exam retirement date.
- Cloud network architects, infrastructure architects, platform engineers, and solutions architects responsible for complex AWS and hybrid connectivity.
- Professionals designing or operating AWS Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, Route 53, multi-account VPC architectures, PrivateLink, DNS, and edge networking solutions.
- Security, operations, and cloud infrastructure professionals who need deeper capability in AWS network security, traffic inspection, monitoring, routing, and governance.
Recommended Experience
- AWS identifies the target candidate as having five or more years of networking experience, including two or more years of cloud and hybrid networking experience.
- Learners should understand AWS networking nuances, security best practices, compute and storage options, and how AWS networking services integrate with broader architectures.
- Candidates benefit from prior AWS Associate or Professional certification, plus hands-on practice with hybrid connectivity, routing, DNS, security controls, and monitoring tools.
- This course is best suited for learners comfortable with advanced networking concepts such as BGP, CIDR planning, IP overlap, DNS forwarding, TLS, IPsec, SD-WAN, and network automation.
ANS-C01 Domain Map
The course is structured around the official AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty exam guide.
The ANS-C01 exam guide identifies four scored domains: Network Design, Network Implementation, Network Management and Operation, and Network Security, Compliance, and Governance.
Course Content
An advanced AWS networking curriculum for ANS-C01 certification preparation.
- Design edge network services using Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS WAF integration patterns.
- Evaluate global inbound and outbound traffic requirements to select appropriate content distribution and traffic management solutions.
- Compare layer 3, layer 4, and layer 7 load balancing options for availability, scalability, security, encryption, authentication, and target group requirements.
- Define logging and monitoring requirements across AWS and hybrid networks to support visibility and operational readiness.
- Design public, private, and hybrid DNS solutions using Route 53 hosted zones, alias records, resolver endpoints, health checks, DNSSEC, and traffic policies.
- Configure private hosted zones, public hosted zones, DNS delegation, DNS forwarding, conditional forwarding, and hybrid name resolution between AWS and on-premises environments.
- Use DNS traffic management methods such as latency-based, geolocation, weighted, and failover records to support application availability and user experience.
- Implement DNS monitoring, logging, secure DNS communications, and multi-account DNS sharing patterns.
- Design routing and connectivity architectures between on-premises networks and AWS using Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect Gateway, Transit Gateway, and SD-WAN integration patterns.
- Evaluate dynamic and static routing, BGP attributes, active/passive and load-sharing models, IPsec, GRE, VLANs, LAGs, optics, jumbo frames, and physical interconnect considerations.
- Implement hybrid connectivity requirements, configure existing on-premises networks and name resolution, and validate connectivity between environments.
- Plan resilient hybrid architectures that meet performance, availability, cost, security, and operational requirements.
- Design and implement connectivity across multiple AWS accounts, Regions, and VPCs using VPC peering, Transit Gateway, AWS PrivateLink, VPC sharing, VPN, and AWS RAM.
- Choose hub-and-spoke, shared services, centralized inspection, distributed, and segmented networking patterns based on application and organizational requirements.
- Manage CIDR planning, subnet optimization, IP overlap, NAT patterns, route propagation, private application connectivity, and centralized network services.
- Apply AWS Organizations and resource sharing models to expand network connectivity while maintaining security and governance boundaries.
- Create and manage repeatable network configurations using infrastructure as code, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, APIs, and automation workflows.
- Automate provisioning and optimization of cloud network resources while reducing hardcoded configuration risk and improving operational consistency.
- Integrate event-driven networking functions and hybrid network automation options with AWS-native IaC.
- Validate security, routing, DNS, load balancing, monitoring, and connectivity intent as network configurations change.
- Maintain routing and connectivity across AWS and hybrid networks using route tables, BGP, Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway, VIFs, PrivateLink, and VPC peering.
- Monitor and analyze network traffic using CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, VPC Traffic Mirroring, Transit Gateway Network Manager, Reachability Analyzer, and load balancer access logs.
- Troubleshoot packet loss, routing issues, packet size mismatches, reachability failures, topology problems, and misconfigured network paths.
- Use operational data to verify that a network configuration meets design requirements and to automate connectivity intent validation.
- Optimize AWS networks for performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness using appropriate connectivity services, routing decisions, and traffic distribution patterns.
- Compare VPC peering, Transit Gateway, VPN, proxy patterns, PrivateLink, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, and Route 53 for specific performance and cost requirements.
- Plan subnet optimization, secondary CIDR usage, jumbo frame support, elastic network interfaces, Elastic Network Adapter, Elastic Fabric Adapter, and workload-specific network interfaces.
- Evaluate multicast requirements, bandwidth utilization, application availability, high-availability DNS options, and global traffic performance.
- Secure inbound, outbound, and inter-VPC traffic using AWS WAF, AWS Shield, AWS Network Firewall, Gateway Load Balancer, security groups, network ACLs, endpoint policies, and perimeter VPC patterns.
- Develop threat models and implement network architectures that meet security and compliance requirements across accounts, VPCs, applications, and hybrid boundaries.
- Validate and audit network security using CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, VPC Traffic Mirroring, Transit Gateway Network Manager, AWS Firewall Manager, and AWS Trusted Advisor.
- Implement confidentiality for data in transit with IPsec, TLS, VPN over Direct Connect, CloudFront, load balancers, managed databases, Amazon S3, ACM, AWS Private CA, and secure DNS communications.
- Review ANS-C01 domain weighting: Network Design at 30%, Network Implementation at 26%, Network Management and Operation at 20%, and Network Security, Compliance, and Governance at 24%.
- Practice scenario interpretation across design, implementation, operations, security, compliance, governance, automation, DNS, routing, and hybrid connectivity.
- Use AWS’s exam preparation plan, exam guide, and Skill Builder resources to identify final knowledge gaps and reinforce exam-style question strategy.
- Decide whether to schedule the exam before retirement or use the training path as advanced AWS networking upskilling for current and future networking roles.
Course Features
Designed for advanced AWS networking training and ANS-C01 certification preparation.
Official Domain Alignment
Prepare across the four AWS ANS-C01 domains: Network Design, Network Implementation, Network Management and Operation, and Network Security, Compliance, and Governance.
Hybrid Network Scenarios
Work through advanced scenarios involving Direct Connect, VPN, Transit Gateway, BGP, Route 53, DNS forwarding, PrivateLink, multi-account VPCs, and SD-WAN integration.
Security and Operations Focus
Strengthen practical skills in WAF, Shield, Network Firewall, Gateway Load Balancer, CloudWatch, flow logs, traffic mirroring, Reachability Analyzer, and audit workflows.
Retirement-Aware Guidance
Receive clear preparation guidance that accounts for the announced exam retirement timeline and helps learners decide whether to certify before the final exam date.
Certification Exam
Prepare for the official AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty exam before retirement.
AWS ANS-C01 Exam Readiness
The specialty exam validates advanced ability to design, implement, manage, and secure AWS and hybrid network architectures at scale.
AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty validates expertise in complex networking tasks. AWS states that candidates should have deep knowledge of AWS security, storage, and networking services, plus advanced architecture experience across IP VPN, MPLS, automation tools, routing protocols, multi-region solutions, and network security features.
AWS lists the exam as Specialty category, with a 170-minute duration, 65 questions, a 300 USD exam cost, Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored options, and language availability in English, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.
The AWS exam guide states that ANS-C01 validates the ability to design, implement, manage, and secure AWS and hybrid network architectures at scale. It also identifies the scored content domains as Network Design, Network Implementation, Network Management and Operation, and Network Security, Compliance, and Governance.
AWS states that the exam is being retired and the last day to take the exam is August 25, 2026. Certifications earned before retirement remain active for the standard three-year period, but new AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty certifications will not be issued after the exam retires.
Frequently Asked Questions
Understand how Accumentum’s AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Training Course supports advanced network design, implementation, operations, security, certification readiness, and exam retirement planning.
It is an AWS Specialty certification for individuals who perform an AWS networking specialist role. The ANS-C01 exam validates the ability to design, implement, manage, and secure AWS and hybrid network architectures at scale.
Yes. AWS states that the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty exam is being retired, with the last day to take the exam on August 25, 2026. Certifications earned before retirement remain active for the standard three-year period.
This course is best suited for experienced network engineers, cloud network architects, platform engineers, infrastructure architects, security engineers, and technical leads responsible for AWS and hybrid networking solutions.
AWS identifies the target candidate as having five or more years of networking experience, including two or more years of cloud and hybrid networking experience. Associate or Professional AWS certification experience is also beneficial.
The official exam guide identifies four scored domains: Network Design, Network Implementation, Network Management and Operation, and Network Security, Compliance, and Governance.
AWS lists the exam duration as 170 minutes. The exam includes 65 questions in multiple-choice or multiple-response format.
The course emphasizes services such as Amazon VPC, Route 53, CloudFront, Global Accelerator, Elastic Load Balancing, Direct Connect, Site-to-Site VPN, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, AWS WAF, Shield, Network Firewall, Gateway Load Balancer, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, Traffic Mirroring, and Reachability Analyzer.
Yes. The course includes ANS-C01 domain mapping, specialty-level scenario interpretation, service selection frameworks, hybrid network design review, troubleshooting practice, security controls review, and readiness planning before the exam retirement date.
Accumentum can support flexible delivery options, including virtual instructor-led training, self-paced materials, and cohort-based training depending on the enrollment model.
This training supports roles such as Senior Network Engineer, Cloud Network Architect, AWS Networking Specialist, Infrastructure Architect, Platform Engineer, Cloud Consultant, Network Security Engineer, and Hybrid Cloud Architect.
Enrollment
Enroll in the AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Training Course with Accumentum.
Enroll in Accumentum’s AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty Certification Training Course to strengthen your ability to design, implement, manage, troubleshoot, automate, and secure AWS and hybrid networking environments. The course provides structured preparation for the ANS-C01 exam while reinforcing real-world cloud networking capabilities that remain valuable beyond the exam retirement timeline.
This course is designed for professionals who already have a strong networking foundation and need advanced AWS networking depth across global traffic management, DNS, hybrid connectivity, multi-account network architecture, automation, operations, security, compliance, governance, and encryption. For enrollment details, upcoming training options, and guidance on whether to pursue the exam before retirement, use the registration and contact links below.
Prepare for AWS Advanced Networking before the exam retires.
Build the advanced AWS and hybrid networking expertise required to design, implement, manage, troubleshoot, automate, and secure complex cloud network architectures at scale.